Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
MSS, August 19: a run to $3.12
MSS opened up 30%, ran to $3.12, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.88, on 7.4M shares.
The open
It opened up 30%, at $2.04. It ran to $3.12 by 9:44 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.87, 40% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 29.9% to $2.04 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.12 in 14 minutes, then gave back 116% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.87, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.57 |
| 4:04 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 378,539 shares |
| 4:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.88 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.04, up 29.9% from the previous close |
| 9:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.12 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.87, 40.1% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $1.57
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.04
- Gap at the open
- +29.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.88 at 4:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.12 at 9:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.66
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.87
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.94 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 22.29 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 416,611
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 18.3×
- Float
- 378,539 shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 855,339
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7.45 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (33%), 6.83 million in the first 30 minutes (30%), and 8.44 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (37%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 378,539 shares: past it once at 4:04 a.m., twice at 4:05 a.m., three times at 4:06 a.m.
- Other days MSS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on September 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for MSS that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
Trade this day
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